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- From: rkennedy@perth.DIALix.oz.au (Robert Kennedy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.cd32
- Subject: Re: CD32 acellerator?
- Date: 2 Apr 1996 13:57:41 +0800
- Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Australia.
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- slider@ccnet.com wrote:
- :
- : -> -- I have an '030 design accelerator Design for the CD32. I have not
- : -> built it for a variety of reasons.... It is based on the M1230XA,
- : -> which I also did.... In all praticality... how many people would want
- : -> such a thing?
- : ->
- : -> It would have to realistically be more than 250-500+ to even think
- : -> about it.... and what features would people want? Is an '40 type
- : -> solution *that much* better?
- : ->
- : -> Jerry Robinson
- : ->
- : -> P.S. I also did the SX-1 & own the copyright for that product.
- : ->
- : ->
- : ->
- : ->
- : ->
- : Judging from responses and from my Users Group, most people who have expanded
- : a CD32 have done so with an SX-1. The SX-1 has a pass-thru for the expansion slot
- : so the bay that was designed to house the FMV could be used for such an accelerator
- : addon along with the SX-1 so you get a CD32 with accelerator and RGB/parralel/serial/floppy
- : IDE and RAM expansion. Let's face it who still wants the FMV????? The price is ridiculous and
- : development and manufacturing for this addon have died horrible on the Amiga.
- : Best shot if you want to make some money would be designing an accelerator to use with
- : a CD32-SX-1 combo or with the CD32 alone. Would be best route as the design would be exactly
- : the same for both users with just a CD32 and users with a CD32-SX1 combo as the accelerator
- : would use the expansion slot which the SX-1 gives a pass thru.
- : Currently we have 75 users in my group "Dark-SIDE-Amiga" with CD32/SX-1 setups.
- : laterzzzz
- : James Vigliotti
- : slider@ccnet.com
- :
- Just to add my AUD$0.02 worth, I, and I'm sure many other people with
- CD32's would love to get there hands on such a device. Just out of
- intrest, how many SX-1 add-ons have been bought? I'm sure at least maybe
- half (guestimate?!) would just leap for joy at being able to accelerate
- their CD32's/SX-1 setup. I myself went the CD32/SX-1 way to build me up
- a cheap aga machine, with _inbuilt_ CD-ROM drive, and could do it a piece
- at a time! I'm sure you could get at least 500, nay, 1000 CD32er's to
- buy said accelerator. Count me in! (In fact, might just stave off me
- building my next project, PeeCee { Uughh ;-(, shudder etc...}).
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